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Weapons the U.S. Military Issued Despite Known Design Problems

Wars are rarely fought with perfect equipment. Throughout history, militaries have fielded weapons they knew were flawed, ...
Morning Overview on MSN

A hidden defect may be behind widespread EV battery failures

Electric vehicles are supposed to be the low‑maintenance workhorses of the energy transition, yet a growing trail of recalls, ...
Tax Guru

Mass Tax Alerts on Donation Deductions Force Revisions Without Disclosing Defects

En masse Communications on Section 80G Deduction Claims: When a “Nudge” Becomes a Shove During the past week, a large number of taxpayers have received system-generated communications from the Income ...
New York Magazine

Blaming Immigrants Is J.D. Vance’s Answer to Every Problem

One of the odder moments in Donald Trump’s big Oval Office “affordability” speech on December 17 was toward the end, when he asserted that mass deportation of immigrants would greatly improve the ...
Mass Transit

Squat-type Defect Remediation on Sound Transit and the Search for Effective Preventive Maintenance Measures

One of the most vexing and increasingly common rail defects that rail transit agencies contend with is the squat-type defect (stud). Addressing studs has been challenging in that they are not fully ...
Hartford Courant

Rodents, roaches, building defects: Fighting CT problem landlords. ‘Going to come after you’

The city is touting its successes of pressuring landlords of troubled properties to either make repairs or relinquish ownership, vowing not to let up on a campaign aimed at improving tenant living ...
WBUR

Mass. authorities want to give up on solving the Charles River's sewage problem

Gary Liversidge of Boston swims in the Charles River during Boston's "City Splash" event on July 18, 2017. (Elise Amendola/AP) As someone who has been helping monitor the Charles River’s water quality ...
America Magazine

Pope Leo’s Latin Mass Problem

Pope Leo XIV recites the Angelus after Mass for the canonization of seven new saints in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 19, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Lola Gomez I don’t envy Pope Leo XIV as he ...
Charlotte Observer

ACC basketball issues have reached critical mass. There’s only one way out

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. The word ACC commissioner Jim Phillips has long used, and is still using, is “restless,” to describe how uncomfortable he is with the ...
The Boston Globe

Mass Save was redesigned to better reach low-income residents. But there’s a problem.

Early this year, the state’s nation-leading energy efficiency program adopted a broader strategy to encourage more low-income households and tenants to tap into its benefits for heat pumps, insulation ...
Law

Critical Mass With Law.com’s Amanda Bronstad: Suits Say Roblox & AI Chatbots Cause Youth’s Mental Health Problems, Ken Feinberg Wants to Hear From LA Wildfire Lawyers

Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. Ken Feinberg plans to meet with lawyers to get input on Southern California Edison’s ...